When Ella Wheeler was born on 5 November 1850, in Johnstown, Rock, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Marcus Hartwell Wheeler, was 42 and her mother, Sarah Jane Pratt, was 35. She married Robert Marius Wilcox on 1 May 1884, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in New Haven, Connecticut, United States in 1919 and Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States in 1919. In 1883, at the age of 32, her occupation is listed as poetess in Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, United States. She died on 30 October 1919, in Short Beach, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Short Beach, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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1848–1916 Male
1850–1919 Female
1884– Male
1808–1898 Male
1814–1906 Female
1837–1928 Male
1842–1922 Female
1846–1926 Male
1850–1919 Female
English: occupational name for a wheelwright, a maker of wheels (primarily for carts and other vehicles, but also other kinds of wheels, for use in spinning or other manufacturing processes), from Middle English wheler, whegheler, a derivative of Old English hweogol, hweowol, hwēol ‘wheel’.
History: A founder of Salisbury, NH, in 1634 was John Wheeler.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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